Education: Greeks' Week

Last fortnight U. S. college fraternities held their annual
interfraternity conference in Manhattan. The delegates had a few
headaches. Fraternities found it harder these days to fill their
expensive houses, make ends meet. The burgeoning of new house plans in
private Eastern colleges, the current revival of dormitory building in
State universities made their own houses less dazzling. At Wisconsin,
dormitories had gone so far as to take over a time-honored fraternity
function: they gave their boys instruction in table manners.

Delegates' biggest headache, which they quickly fell to discussing, was
disagreeable publicity....